Receive the love of God and let Him love you to life.
II. GROW IT!
Let His love grow and develop in you. I you aren't committed to your own growth you won't be committed to loving anyone else to life.
III. GIVE IT!
Commit to helping others grow in their faith.
Be as committed to the spiritual growth of others as you are your own - like
Peter did, commit to “loving them to life”.
“Simon Peter, a SERVANT and apostle of Jesus
Christ……”
Peter had accepted God’s love and had grown
in his faith and now was writing and serving God’s people to help them grow!
In
what the news called "The Miracle at Quecreek," nine miners trapped
for three days 240 feet underground in a
water-filled mine shaft "decided early on they were either going to live
or die as a group."
The 55 degree (Fahrenheit) water threatened to kill them slowly by hypothermia, so according to one news report "When one would get cold, the other eight would huddle around the person and warm that person, and when another person got cold, the favor was returned."
The 55 degree (Fahrenheit) water threatened to kill them slowly by hypothermia, so according to one news report "When one would get cold, the other eight would huddle around the person and warm that person, and when another person got cold, the favor was returned."
"Everybody
had strong moments," miner Harry B. Mayhugh told reporters after being
released from Somerset Hospital in Somerset. "But any certain time maybe
one guy got down, and then the rest pulled together. And then that guy would
get back up, and maybe someone else would feel a little weaker, but it was a
team effort. That’s the only way it could have been."
They faced incredibly hostile conditions
together—and they all came out alive together.
What a picture of the body of
Christ!
LET GOD LOVE
YOU TO LIFE
LET THAT
LIFE GROW WITHIN YOU
COMMIT
TO LOVING YOUR BROTHER AND SISTERS TO LIFE
STUDY TOGETHER – Small Group?
SHARE TOGETHER – Sunday School, Small Group, Accountability Partner?
SING TOGETHER - WORSHIP
SERVE TOGETHER – Get A Ministry
Does
anybody know who has won the most NCAA national championships in men’s
basketball? It was John Wooden - the coach of the UCLA Bruins. He won all those
championships because he focused on. He created TEAMS. If you watch many
basketball matchups, you’ll see that many teams have a “go-to” guy who is the
anchor of the team. But individual accomplishments and records held little
value to Wooden. Every year he put together the best group of players he could
find. And the 5 men who best complemented each other and worked together were the
ones he started. His motto was, “The most important player when we win – is the
rest of the team. ”Wooden encouraged his players to acknowledge the assists of
their teammates. If one player received a pass that allowed him to score,
Wooden wanted him to give the other man a wink or point to him as they moved
down to the opposite end of the court. A new player once asked Wooden “What if
the other player isn’t looking when I point to him? ”Wooden just smiled, “Oh
don’t worry. He’ll be looking.”
That’s the kind of teamwork that Christ wanted
to build into His church! He wants people who will love each other to life!